Word processing instructors and supervisors and correspondence secretaries were surveyed concerning their perceptions of correspondence secretarial competencies, training loci, job qualifications, and company training programs. Findings indicate that entry-level skills are most often learned in company training programs and advanced skills are…

How task analysis--the reduction of skills needed to master a complex objective to sequential behavioral steps--can help art teachers meet the needs of handicapped learners is discussed. Rather than emphasizing activities for disabled learners, emphasis should be placed on the skills learners must master to complete the activity. (RM)

This study was performed to resolve the question of comparability of manual dexterity scores obtained on wooden and plastic versions of the USES pegboard. Currently authorized equipment, either plastic or wooden, may be used with the confidence that scores are not affected by the type of equipment used. (Author)

Presents a model inventory which identifies student skill weaknesses and strengths in bookkeeping, and which is adaptable to other content reading areas. (RB)

Telephone interviews were conducted with 12 experienced blind adults to determine the strategies and techniques they employed in locating point, linear, and areal symbols and in following a track on a pseudo-map. (GW)

As a result of a SATRA Course it was found that employees acting as instructors became good supervisors; as instructors they were experiencing situations similar to those of supervisors. Thus, while instructors are training newcomers, the instructors, themselves, are training for supervisory positions. (RB)

Traces the evolution of selection and measurement of employees, and identifies the skills found to be most needed and least developed in today's labor pool--oral communication, listening, problem solving, leadership, and organizational ability. (Author/WD)

Describes a career/life planning program. Its elements include orientation to career/life planning; personal assessment and planning strategy workshops; and skills assessment. Evaluation procedures and results are included. (CT)

Provides an attempt to facilitate educators' understanding of the complex dynamics of listening via a skill analysis. (Author)

Survey data compiled from 321 administrative office managers indicated five broad areas of competencies rated as most important: (1) budgeting, (2) employee incentives and relations, (3) standards and job evaluation, (4) human relations and motivation, and (5) recruitment and dismissal. The survey also indicated that more men than women fill…

Results from a study involving 80 undergraduates indicate that acquisition and retention of a motor skill, developed through practice of a movement timing task, were facilitated by distributed practice on the continuous task, but by massed practice on the discrete task. (IAH)

Three tenets of skill requirements influence understanding of work: (1) they decompose workers/jobs into bundles of skills; (2) the skills identified are required in some obvious way; and (3) they separate workers from work contexts. Case studies of four workplaces suggest the appropriate analytical unit may be the workplace and not the job. (SK)

Discussion of knowledge management (KM) explores the need for new roles and considers the skills mix required by the people and teams who design KM environments. Highlights include the knowledge economy; the roles of senior executives, planning teams, and implementation teams; business units; and the role of the information profession. (LRW)

Examines project teams and performance-centered design and electronic performance support systems. Topics include performance improvement; technology development; skills; subject expertise; organizational communication; the role-skill paradox; task analysis; and interpersonal communication. (LRW)

An intent of many business programs is to enhance the critical thinking capabilities of their students. Since AACSB accreditation requires evidence that business schools fulfill their goals, our students were required to take the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST). As expected, the CCTST was significantly related to SAT performance…